Wim Wenders
Friday 28 April 2006 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Matthew Sweet will be visiting Kensal Green cemetery in North London to find out from Catharine Arnold, the author of 'Necropolis', how London has dealt with its dead.
Playlist
In Night Waves tonight Matthew Sweet will be talking to Wim Wenders, the award winning director of Paris , Texas about his reunion with Sam Shepherd on the film 'Don't Come Knocking' and why he believes that he may have made his last American film.
Also in the programme, a review of Neil Biswas' new Channel 4 drama, Bradford Riots, which tells the story of the July 2001 riots from the perspective of a group of young Asian men whose lives have been defined by the outbreak of violence - the film maker Navid Akhtar and the Bradford based poet Joolz Denby will be in the studio to discuss the drama.
And Matthew will be visiting Kensal Green cemetery in North London to find out from Catharine Arnold, the author of 'Necropolis', how London has dealt with its dead.
Further information
Bradford Riots' by Neil Biswas is on Channel 4 on Thursday May 4th at 9pm
'Don't Come Knocking' is on selected release, certificate 15
'Necropolis' by Catharine Arnold is published by Simon and Schuster
